. live from the channel 4 studios in boston, wbz news at noon starts now with breaking news. pleading for unity, a long and contentious election now over, donald trump with no political experience now set to become the 45th president of the united states. >>i pledge to every our land that i will be president for all americans. >>it all came down to the wire in the early morning hours and this noon some of the votes are still coming in? it is an outcome true predicted. donald trump bucking the political establishment set to become the president of the united states. i'm chris mckinnon. >>and i'm kate merrill. it looks like clinton may win the

election. clinton leads trump by 162,000 votes but has lost in the electoral college, 218 to 289. president obama is expected to address the nation in about 15 minutes. he has already invited president-elect donald trump to visit the white house tomorrow. wbz has full coverage with the latest now from liam martin live in new york where hillary clinton just finished speaking. >> reporter: kate and chris, hillary clinton addrng those supporters and her staff just moments ago at the new yorker hotel here in manhattan, her first comments since last night. she had decided in the early-morning hours to wait until later today to make this address. she wanted to wait for the majority of the votes across the country to come in. she actually passed donald trump this morning in the popular vote, but obviously has lost to him in the electoral college,

running mate at her side, she congratulated donald trump. >>i know how disappointed you feel, because i feel it too, and so do 10s of millions of americans who invested their hopes and dreams in this effort. this is painful, and it will be for a long time, but i want you to remember this, our campaign was never about one person or even it was about the country we love and about building an america that's hopeful, inclusive and big hearted. we have seen that our nation is more deeply divided than we thought, but i still believe in america, and i always will. and if you do, then we must accept this result and then look to the future. donald trump is going to be our president.

mind and the chance to lead. >> reporter: now, trump for his part spoke just before 3:00 this morning also in manhattan at the hilton midtown saying he wants to be a president for all americans and saying the country owes a debt of gratitude to hillary clinton. >>to those who have chosen not to support me in the past, of if which were a -- there were a few people, i'm reaching out to you so that we can work together and unify our great country. it's been what they call a historic event, but to be really historic we have to do a great job, and i promise you that i will not let you down. we will do a great job. we will do a great job [ cheering ] >>i look very much forward to being your president and

years or maybe even 8 years you will say so many of you worked so hard for us. america will no longer settle for anything less than the best. >> reporter: so donald trump this morning preparing to become the 45th president of the united states. he is meeting, in fact, with his transition team today in new york not far from where we are right now to begin picking out next chief of staff, defense -- cabinet, chief of staff, defense secretary, secretary of state. president obama has invited donald trump to greet him tomorrow at the white house so talk about the transition of power. i'm liam martin wbz today. >>this has been one of the most divisive elections in history. >>emotions are running high as the country reacts to the election of donald trump. anna

what local voters are saying. >> reporter: hillary clinton won the reliably blue state of massachusetts, so many voters told me they are devastated by the results, some even broke down crying while talking to me. but really everyone is hoping for the best. >>shocked, i was shocked. >> reporter: the front page of the paper says it all, whether you voted for donald trump or against him, many people woke up surprised to see he america's 45th president. >>i am shocked that trump won. >> reporter: hillary clinton won the state of massachusetts, but across the country a loud cry for change from the status quo. >>i think people are feeling angry. >> reporter: jennifer quintliani voted for trump. >>i'm hopeful. >> reporter: a stark contrast to jennifer west, who was wiping away tears on her way to work

as well. it's devastating. >> reporter: trump called for unity in his speech, but some say his comments throughout the in -- the campaign make the future look bleak. >>as a woman, a person of color, i was disappointed. >>i worry about people who are less well off. when i think about the chance that affordable healthcare could be yanked from them, it's horrifying. >> reporter: canadian immigration website, but this woman from toronto says americans should think positive. >>i think you should look at it as an opportunity to get united and try and get things done. >> reporter: and many say they are hoping for the best. >>let's support him and hope he does the right thing and gets us where he says he'll get us. >> reporter: as you can see there is a gentleman out here giving out free hugs trying to put a smile on people's faces

anna meiler, wbz news. >>donald trump who regularly used twitter throughout the campaign is back tweeting today, but his profile looking different. it now lists him as the president-elect of the united states. this morning he tweeted the forgotten man and woman will never be forgotten again. we will all come together as never before. >>and despite fears a trump presidency would immediately tank the market wall street is staying steady this afternoon. >>jill is here with a closer look at the numbers. >> reporter: a stunning reversal for the market. the dow is up about 143 points. this comes after overnight futures pointed to a massive sell-off at one point. actually, an 800-point drop at the open. future trading was temporarily halted. there was a bit of a recovery

speech. donald trump's presidency brings a lot of uncertainty about everything from taxes to trade. the markets do not like uncertainty. we should note the dow jumped about 100 points while hillary clinton was speaking which tells you the markets want to see a smooth transition. they're not looking for any uncertainty on the political front. we'll keep an eye on it. so far so good considering where we started this day. chris and kate. >>that's what thank you. we have more breaking news in the new hampshire senate race. >>maggie hassan declaring victory, but the race has not officially been called. only a few hundred votes separate hassan and ayotte. nicole is live with reaction this noon. >> reporter: chris, kate, that has been a very interesting race, a close one all the way through. as you mentioned

are fablely -- finally reporting and maggie has a slight lead over ayot, but -- ayotte but before that she was claiming victory here. she called a surprise rally right here on the steps surrounded by supporters. she holds a small lead over kelly ayotte but just over 700 votes and for hassan, that is enough. >>we are confident that given the size of tallies that we have won this race and we want to make sure that every vote is counted. >> reporter: kelly ayotte has not conceded the race. minutes after hassan claimed victory the ayotte camp released a statement reading "this has been a closely contested race from the beginning and we look forward to the results being announced by the secretary of state and ensuring every vote is counted

historic level of interest." ayotte has not addressed her supporters on camera but she did last night before leaving the campaign party. >>right now, as you know, being on your screen we're very up beat about where the race is, but we will not know tonight, we believe, what the outcome is, and i believe strongly in the fact that we want to have every vote in in this come out and really talk to you about a victory here. >> reporter: again, moments ago 100% of precincts are now reporting, so every vote has counted according to those numbers. we have not yet heard from the secretary of state. we do know that it is ayotte's campaign that must call for a recount if that is what they desire. this is not something that would automatically happen.

to be determined. we are live in concord, new hampshire, nicole jacobs, wbz news. >>and also in new hampshire, chris sununu did succeed maggie hassan. at age 42 he becomes the country's youngest governor. here in massachusetts voters got to weigh in on four important ballot questions overwhelmingly saying no to question one expanded -- voters said no to the extension of charter schools, 62% voted against. question 3 has passed making it illegal for farms to confine, pens, hens, and calves. instead they must have room to lie down, stan up and turn around. it passed by 78%. and massachusetts giving the nod to recreational marijuana.

but it's not quite legal the question. residents will have to wait until december 15th for that and marijuana stores will not open until 2018. a student has been stabbed at brighton high school in boston. the student was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. no other information has been released on what led up to the stabbing. we will continue to follow the story and have the latest for you as soon as it becomes available. coming up next, real, coach bill belichick opens up about the man he calls a friend, president-elect donald trump and his support for his cane. we've got a couple of showers we're tracking but the clouds have thickened up and the clouds are going to dive mainly to the so you said. -- to the south. we'll preview the weekend separate ahead --

. a live look at the white house where president obama is expected to address the nation. we will bring you the speech live as soon as it happens. >>it was revealed this week bill belichick sent a letter to donald trump praising the

the now president-elect. >>our friendship goes back many years and i think anybody that's spent more than five minutes with me knows i'm not a political person. my comments are not politically motivated. i have a friendship and a royalty to donald. a couple of weeks ago we had secretary of state kerry in our locker room, another friend of mine. i can't imagine two people with more different views than those two. that, not political or religious views. >>patriots quarterback tom brady is also friendly with donald trump. >>brady politely bowed out of any political debate. >>i talked to my wife. she said i can't talk about politics anymore, so i think that's a good decision made for our family. >>and, again, we are awaiting president obama who is said to address the nation from the white house. >>we, of course, will bring it

live. first we want to get a check of the forecast here in massachusetts. things are starting to change. >>we have a couple of showers but i think most of us will be dry. there's just some light shower activity out there right now and we've actually warmed up pretty nicely. boston sitting at 61 degrees right now. it's 62 in taunt en, 63 in fal muth and cooler north and west of town where the wind has shifted. here is the satellite radar. the clouds have thickened up. the leading edge with a couple of sprinkles on 390 and 295. most of the action is actually going to dive off to the south here. so between, let's say, now and 2:00, 3:00, there may be a spotty shower in metro west.

showers down to the south coast. the evening commute, no big issues, and then periods of rain, light for the most part may linger until 9:00 or 10:00, we'll call it partly cloudy overall, cooler than it was this morning, 38 downtown but 30 to 36 in the suburbs. the wind about 10 to 20 miles an hour, so it will be active. it will be a chilly start 48 by recess time and into the 50s for the ride home, so a cooler day overall tomorrow. no more 60s, a pretty seasonal afternoon and tomorrow the wind will shift around and blow out of the southwest later on. 10 to 20 miles an hour, so a bit of a cool breeze tomorrow, 50 in worcester, but it's a dry day in the mid 50s from norwood back to plymouth at 52 and lower 50s over the cape and islands as well. veterans' day looks

what's going on here is in the morning it's not going to be that cold, mid 40s, blend of sun and clouds. a lot of praised in the morning. you'll be good to go. there may be gusts to 40 miles per hour in the afternoon. as an arctic front blasts through we'll cool quickly through the evening and the chilly wind will be with us. so the real feel is going to be running in the 30s as we head into veterans' day evening. on saturday sun and clouds to start the weekend. it'll be chilly in the mid 40s, kind blustery feel. the wind chill will be in the 30s at times but we make a nice rebound on sunday with sunshine, chris. >> reporter: this is a cbs news special report i'm scott pelley reporting from new york. good day. president obama is about to make his first public comments on the election of donald trump to be his successor. trump has called

country. mr. obama has called trump unfit to serve and woefully unprepared to be president. but early this morning after trump declared victory the president called him, congratulated him and invited him to the white house tomorrow to talk about the transition. donald trump will become the 45th president of the united states on january the 20th, 10 weeks from friday. we are looking at a live picture now. that is the door to the oval office, the door that opens out into the rose garden where we are expecting president obama at any point. and as we wait for the door to wing up, let's -- swing open let's go to john dickerson and our cbs news political director. john, president obama and donald trump have one thing in common, they have both defeated hillary clinton. >> reporter: that's right. and if you think of the presidential campaigns as kind of answer to

president obama was sometimes described as professorial. and here is the president followed by the vice president, president obama. >>good afternoon, everybody. yesterday before votes were tallied, i shot a video that some of you may have seen in which i said people, regardless of which side you were on the in the election, regardless of whether your candidate won or lost, the sun would come up in the morning, and that is one bit of progress in factica ting -- prognosticating that actually came through.

trump last night to congratulate him on winning the election. i had the chance to invite him to come to the white house tomorrow to talk about making sure there's a successful transition between our presidencies. there's no secret that we have some pretty significant differences, but remember 8 years ago, president bush and i had some pretty significant differences. president bush's team could not have been more in making sure weighed smooth transition so that -- we had a smooth transition so that we could hit the ground running. one thing you realize in this job is that the presidency and the vice presidenty is bigger than any of -- vice presidency is bigger than any of us. i have instructed my team to work as hard as we can to make sure that this is a successful transition for the

in uniting and leading the country. the peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy, and over the next few months, we are going to show that to the world. i also had a chance last night to speak with secretary clinton and i just had a chance to hear her remarks. i could not be prouder of her. she has lived an extraordinary li o she was a great first lady, an outstanding senator for the state of new york, and she could not have been a better secretary of state. i'm proud of her. a lot of americans look up to her. her candidacy and nomination was historic and sends a message to our daughters all across the country that they can achieve at the highest levels of of politics and i'm absolutely

great work for people here in the united states and all around the world. now, everybody is sad when their side loses an election, but the day after we have to remember that we're actually all on one team. this is an inter mural scrimmage. we're not democrats republicans first. we are americans first. we're patriots first. we all want what's best for this country. that's what i heard in mr. trump's remarks last night. that's what i heard when i spoke to him directly, and i was hardened by that. that's what the country needs, a sense of unity, a sense of

rule of law, and a respect for each other. i hope that he maintains that spirit throughout this transition, and i certainly hope that's how his presidency has a chance to begin. i also told my team today to keep their heads up, because the remarkable and day out, often without a lot of fan paperwork often without a lot of attention -- without a lot of fan fair, often without a lot of attention, with policies that make it run better and more responsive and more efficient and make it more service friendly so that it's actually helping more people, that

next president with a stronger, better country than the one that existed 8 years ago. so win or lose in this election, that was always our mission. that was our mission from day 1. and everyone on my team should be extraordinarily proud of everything that they have done, and so should all the americans that i've had a chance to meet all across this country who the hard work of building on that progress every day, teachers in schools, doctors in the er clinic, small businesses putting their all into starting something up, making sure they're treating their employees well, all the important work that's done by moms and dads and families and congregations in

perfecting this union. so this was a long and hard-fought campaign. a lot of our fellow americans are ex a lot ent today. -- exaltant today. it is hard and sometimes contentious and naysy. it's not always -- noisy and it's not always inspiring, but to the young for the first time and may be disappointed by the results, i just want you to know you have to stay encouraged. don't get cynical. don't ever think you can't make a difference. as secretary clinton said this morning, fighting for what is right is worth it. sometimes you lose an argument.

you lose an election. you know, the path this country's taken has never ban straight line. we zig and zag and sometimes we move in ways that some people think is forward and others think is moving back, and that's okay. i've lost elections before. joe hasn't, >>so i've been sort of sharing -- >>you beat me badly. >>that's the way politics work sometimes. we try really hard to persuade people that we're right, and then people vote, and then if we lose, we learn from our mistakes, we do some

back in the arena. we go at it. we try even harder the next time. the point, though, is that we all go forward with a presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens because that presumption of good faith is essential to a vibrant and functioning democracy. that's how this country has moved forward for 240 years. that's how we've pushed boundaries and promoted freedom around the world and expanded the rights of our founding to reach all of our citizens. it's how we have come this far, and that's why i'm confident that this incredible journey that we're on as americans will go on, and i'm looking forward to doing everything that i can to make sure that the next president is successful in that. i have said

being a replay runner. you take the baton. you run your best race, and hopefully by the time you hand it off you're a little further ahead, you've made a little progress. and i can say that we've done and and i want to make sure the hand-off is well executed because ultimately we're all on the same team. thank you very much, everybody. >> re single greatest obligation of any president, the peaceful transition of power, not just peaceful but mag nan muss -- mag nanimous transition of power. >> reporter: it appears that hillary clinton has lost badly

popular vote, something that's only happened four times previously in american history, and three of those times were in the 19th century and then, of course, a lot of us remember the only other time that happened and that was in the year 2000. >>that's right and tim kaine mentioned that before early on as if to ratify her message and there will be a lot of talk about mandates, but if more voters voted for hillary clinto hold onto. president obama talked about passing the baton not to the runner he had hoped for, but, you know, when i talked to him and when he talks about what george bush did to prepare the way for him and to see him refer to the words of george bush and to keep that going as kind of the last act of a presidency to keep it smart and tidy that is the first symbol of that transfer of